British rocker Pete Doherty was arrested on Saturday after a newspaper published photos showing him allegedly injecting a drug into the arm of an apparently unconscious female fan, police sources said.
LONDON: British rocker Pete Doherty was arrested on Saturday after a newspaper published photos showing him allegedly injecting a drug into the arm of an apparently unconscious female fan, police sources said.
Doherty, the 27-year-old frontman of the Babyshambles band, was arrested in east London on "suspicion of administering a noxious substance recklessly," a police source said.
A spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police said that a 27-year-old man was arrested in connection with photographs published in The Sun newspaper on Friday, but withheld his name in line with policy guidelines.
Police sources confirmed the man arrested was Doherty.
The police said Friday they had launched an investigation into the events shown in the photographs carried by the mass-circulation newspaper The Sun.
The Sun said the picture it ran of Doherty and the female fan was taken at his home in Hackney, east London, within the past five weeks.
He is seen pressing what looks like a syringe into her lower left arm as she appears to lie unconscious on a kitchen floor. A second picture of Doherty shows the singer allegedly jabbing a needle into his tattooed forearm.
The pictures are the latest episode in Doherty's battle with heroin and numerous encounters with the law.
Last Friday, Doherty was bailed after being arrested on suspicion of fresh drug offenses in east London. The arrest came three hours after he was spared jail by magistrates for possessing controlled drugs.
Doherty was arrested in December last year and then again in January for possession of small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis.
In February, he was sentenced to a year of community service and ordered to undergo a detoxification program.
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